lynch
Extrajudicial mob killing
To lynch is to kill someone, typically by hanging, through mob action without legal authority.
The practice is most associated with the terrorizing of Black Americans in the post-Civil War South, where white mobs murdered thousands with impunity.
The term now applies to any extrajudicial mob killing: The crowd threatened to lynch the suspected thief.
Racial separation laws
- segregationForced separation by group
- Ku Klux KlanWhite supremacist hate organization
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- racial terrorViolence aimed at ethnic groups
Emmett Till · noose · postbellum · Reconstruction · Strange Fruit · sundown towns · night riders · mob violence
Extralegal justice-seeker
- extrajudicialOutside court authority
- posseArmed group pursuing fugitives
- crowdLarge public gathering
- hangingExecution by noose
torches · pitchforks · kangaroo court · rough justice · frontier justice · summary execution · lawlessness · frenzy
Deliberate unlawful killing
- executionCompleting a planned task
- hangingExecution by noose
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- mutilationDamaging a body severely
burning · dragging · brutality · savage · gruesome · fatal · deadly · victim
Without legal right
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- accusationClaim someone did wrong
- falseNot matching reality
- unjustNot fair or right
miscarriage · persecution · scapegoat · targeted · defenseless · powerless · oppression · abuse
Mass public shunning online
- pile-onMass criticism or tackle
- witch huntPersecuting supposed wrongdoers
- public shamingCommunal reputational punishment
- character assassinationDestroying someone's good name
trial by media · online harassment · cyberbullying · pile on · dogpile · callout · cancellation
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- segregationForced separation by group
- Ku Klux KlanWhite supremacist hate organization
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
Emmett Till · racial terror · noose · postbellum · Reconstruction · Strange Fruit · sundown towns · night riders · mob violence · NAACP
vigilante
Extralegal justice-seeker
- extrajudicialOutside court authority
- posseArmed group pursuing fugitives
- crowdLarge public gathering
hanging · torches · pitchforks · kangaroo court · rough justice · frontier justice · summary execution · lawlessness · frenzy · bloodlust
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
- executionCompleting a planned task
- hangingExecution by noose
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
mutilation · burning · dragging · brutality · savage · gruesome · fatal · deadly · victim · atrocity
wrongful
Without legal right
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- accusationClaim someone did wrong
- falseNot matching reality
unjust · miscarriage · persecution · scapegoat · targeted · defenseless · powerless · oppression · abuse · violation
cancel culture
Mass public shunning online
- pile-onMass criticism or tackle
- witch huntPersecuting supposed wrongdoers
- public shamingCommunal reputational punishment
character assassination · trial by media · online harassment · cyberbullying · pile on · dogpile · callout · cancellation
lynchlegal execution
Lawful killing by state
due process · judicial execution · fair trial · capital punishment · adjudicate
- lynch mobsCrowds enacting illegal executions
- David Lynch
- Jane Lynch
- lynch pinCritical securing component
- Merrill LynchMajor American brokerage
- lynch lawExtrajudicial execution by mob